Politics Quotes · Page 136

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.

— John McDonnell

Article 50 governs the exit from the European Union and here there can also be no renegotiation.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.

— Dan Bongino

Life doesn't have to be the way it is. We can change it. That's why I'm in politics.

— Liz Kendall

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

— Jean Bodin

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

— Jason Kenney

“Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

— Lord Hailsham

A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may…

— Charles H. Percy

In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or…

— Garth Brooks

There's tremendous pressure, if you're in that [goverment] system, to be involved and be interested and to care about it. There's no…

— Dave Barry

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain…

— Mark Zandi

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world…

— David Amram

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have…

— Els Borst

My entire political career has been based on building up Britain's political standing and economic prosperity through our membership of the E.U.…

— Kenneth Clarke

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

— Thomas Jefferson

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in…

— Mark Udall

“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the…

— William Hague

In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and…

— Catharine Beecher

Donald Trump and Sean Spicer do one thing after another to keep the media attention focused on them. And it works. These…

— Noam Chomsky

“If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two…

— Lyndon Baines Johnson

“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it…

— Henry David Thoreau

A lot of politicians talked about giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices, which will help millions of Americans. Not…

— Neera Tanden

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

— Margaret Thatcher

I wasn't planning on becoming a politician. I was incredibly fulfilled in my role at PATH.

— Katie Hill

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

— Sjon

“No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind”

— Karl Marx

The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

— Eartha Kitt

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

— Vusi Mahlasela

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

— Sarah Palin

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

— Francois Hollande

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

— Preston Manning

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

— Marcus Samuelsson

I don't sing about politics or anything like that. I sing about love. That's what I know about.

— Christine McVie

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

— P. J. O'Rourke